Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. - Frantz Fanon
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
- Frantz Fanon
The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves. - Frantz Fanon
The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves. - Frantz Fanon
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery. - Frantz Fanon
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well. - Frantz Fanon
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. - Frantz Fanon
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultur… - Frantz Fanon
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultur…
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence canno… - Frantz Fanon
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence canno…
What matters is not to know the world but to change it. - Frantz Fanon
What matters is not to know the world but to change it.
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